I'm working reasonably successfully with GDAL as a learner, in command line mode using warp and translate, and then from within C++ in Visual Studio. I had first used GDAL from Python a year or two ago, before resuming pretty intensely via C++ recently.
I had a problem with my PC, so I went to a new machine in the last few days. Oh my, how little nitty things can challenge, to restabilize, particularly when I don't have complete understanding of what I am doing. Things are finally working, but I didn't get there in a straight line at all, and I might have some redundant stuff on my new machine, so I'd like some advice please. Specifically, I think I installed twice unnecessarily, as follows: 1. I did the install from source using the https://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource page, then followed this youtube video for every detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf8rYOfvZjY. With a couple of tweaks, I ended up with all the GDAL folders and files in one directory, c:\gdal. 2. I did a much simpler install of .msi precompiled binaries using the Generic Installer for the Core components from: http://www.gisinternals.com/. I ended up with all the x64 gdal libraries in C:\Program Files\GDAL. This youtube was helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQt9tmfl-x8 Things would not work...I got some post-compile execution errors about not being able to find gdal203.dll. I found this youtube video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKTeNVvF4gM ) that guided me to fix my path variables, something I had done long ago in the Python period, and overlooked in recent thrashing. In setting path and system variables in the last stage, I came to believe that I had installed GDAL twice, though there was a small difference. There was no gdalplugins files it seems from step 1, they were from step 2. So I pointed the all 3 environment settings at the C:\Program Files\GDAL sections from step 2. Now when building a C++ console app (they are working), I'm manually setting include libraries for gdal, apps, gcore, port, and ogr to the c:\gdal area in step 1, and to c:\gdal\gdal_i.lib from step 1. It seems bizarre what I am doing, pointing to both area 1 (libs) and area 2 (paths), but things for now are working. Can someone please share some "best practices" insight for setup for the benefit of this novice (me), so I hopefully can clean up the messy stuff I have created and that I am doing? I'm pretty sure what I am doing is screwy and far from best practices!
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